Soma Chocolate

A cookie to celebrate the solar eclipse. The alignment of the Sun, Moon and Earth as a full solar eclipse will be a sight to behold... for 4 min and 28 seconds the all encompassing sky will envelop us in a beautiful warm glow.

What will we be eating when it happens? Solar Eclipse Sables of course. :)

Buttery black sesame cookies baked and dipped into 4 phases of the eclipse, from first contact to totality. The cookies are nutty and smoky from the roasted black sesame, hand dipped in our ethereal white chocolate. Delicious and “not too sweet”

Available...right now on the webshop. We also baked a fresh batch to be ready at the shops tomorrow afternoon. Very limited edition.

Welcome new moon we’ve been expecting you. Where will you be during the eclipse?

https://www.somachocolate.com/collections/cookies/products/solar-eclipse-black-sesame-sables

Meet Bao Bao, the baby panda. Eeeep he’s so so cute, small and mighty Bao Bao embodies all the forces of good in a little dumpling shaped body. In Chinese Bao means “treasure” a light that radiates sweetness out into the universe.

Bao Bao is made with our luscious white chocolate and dark chocolate made with cacao from our favourite farms and growing regions. Bao sits on a magnificent nest made by smooshing roasted hazelnuts and dark chocolate together then hand cranking it through an old schoolpasta press. House made Gianduja, the good stuff.

Very limited edition, each adorable part of Bao Bao is hand sculpted giving each Panda their own little personality. Inside Bao Bao’s belly is a delightful Yuzu & rice cracker donut. Because baby pandas eat donuts right? ;)

Packed in a very cool reusable Weck tulip jar. Yay to no waste packaging and to making Jam.

Available now for preorder on the web shop. Bao Bao will be ready for you to pick-up and ship 2nd week of March.

https://www.somachocolate.com/products/bao-bao-the-baby-panda

Lucky Cats to ring in Lunar New Year
Buttery Sable cookies with a luscious Umeboshi Plum Caramel middle.

big...hand sized. I realize we’re making a lot of hand size items for Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day it’s nice because we all have 2. :)

Remember these cuties from the Happyland box? As promised they’re back solo to sprinkle good luck, good health and joy onto your beautiful faces.

These special good luck sandwiches are made ( sables and caramel) with barrel-churned A2 jersey butter. This butter, wow...a bright canary yellow made from the milk of single herd jerseys on a family farm in Ontario, 84% mf glorious to make and bake with. Super fancy.

Umeboshi Plums
Plum trees blossom right about now when there’s still a chill in the air. Many poems have been written about their beauty. The plums signify warmth and good luck and renewal. Pickled Umeboshi plums are fruity, sour and salty... intense mellowed beautifully when melted into a perfectly cooked creamy caramel.

These cuties are available now up until Lunar NY and maybe Valentine’s Day at the shops and webshop.

Dragon Dumplings!!
To celebrate the Year of the Dragon- raspberry Chocolate dumplings!!

This year we decided to supersize them into hand size dumplings. Inside a chocolate dumpling the most luscious Raspberry truffle filling Wrapped up to be festive.

Dumplings are a very Chinese way to celebrate love and togetherness. Gathering with family and friends laughing, telling stories, lovingly critiquing each other’s dumpling wrapping skills then sitting down for a delicious meal of dumplings together. The whole day is loud and rambunctious, a very joyful affair. My family is especially loud.

So how do you make chocolate dumplings? Lol not easily. Unlike dumpling wrappers that are soft and pliable, chocolate is anything but. We make paper thin chocolate wrappers, pipe on fluffy raspberry ganache and fold(!) into a dumpling before the chocolate sets hard.

The whole process is pushing the science a bit but it’s totally worth it. The result is a beautifully wonky looking dumpling... crispy chocolate skin snapping through to soft tangy filling.

available at the shops and the web shop...now. These dumpling are hard to make so only small batches, so nab em fast. Timing is everything.

Supergalactic LOVE heart

Valentine’s Day!!!- let’s go

Love is all around us...it connects the tiniest of galaxies to the most grandiose to form a super galaxy of light and planetary wonders existing together in the most beautiful way.

The supergalactic love heart is an edible galaxy to savour with your favourite peeps.

The middle is a malted milkshake made into a super smooth chocolate (a Malteesers-Horlicks love child) whipped up into a buttery cloud dotted with crunchy stars. The fluffy chocolate is piped into a dark chocolate heart and topped with a constellation of crunchy Pecan Pralines.

The heart is big (hand sized) to share with someone you adore. Packaged in the prettiest gold flecked galaxy box. The heart is like a little galaxy of love you can hold in your hand. Awhhh

Available on the webshop now... first batch will be available in the shops early next week ( fingers crossed for a few this weekend). Supergalactic LOVE Hearts are shelf stable for a month so yes you can buy them now. Whether you eat them now or on Vday is your choice. teehee

limited edition

https://www.somachocolate.com/collections/valentines-day

Valentine’s Day Flavour Workshops are back!!
Last year was a riot, so SO much fun. So let’s do it again....join us in a joyful evening tasting chocolate, exploring ingredients, making your own chocolate bars and shaking up magnificent cocktails- in the middle of a chocolate factory!

Very limited seating. spaces fill very quickly.

Make your own chocolate bars
Learn how a single cacao bean is turned into chocolate. Chocolate has over 400 flavour molecules making it one of the most complex foods in the world. We will be opening up our secret stash of wild and wonderful ingredients to our group of explorers. With your newly tuned tastebuds design your own chocolate bar. You’ll then have your Lucille ball moment and make your own chocolate bars.

Last year’s bars ranged from elegant, to really wacky, to super organized to really chaotic. Some very interesting flavour combinations. All beautiful in their own way...just like people and couples and love. :)

Make a cocktail
Maria and Michael owners of Kinsip will join us as co-navigators for the Cocktail and Chocolate evenings. Learn how the magic of making spirits happens at their very cool micro distillery in PEC. They have created 3 cocktails made with their beautiful spirits for this lovely dovey evening. Choose and make the cocktail that best pairs with your freshly made bar.

pssst: there’s a very special pairing at the end of the tasting because there can never be too much fun had.

Eat, drink and enjoy.

When? 4 evenings of fun
Make your own Chocolate bars- Fri, Feb 9 & Sat, Feb 17
Make your own Chocolate bars and Cocktails- Sat, Feb 10 & Wed Feb 14 (Valentine’s Day)

Where: at the big beautiful new chocolate factory
77 Brock Avenue

Workshop is approx. 2ish hours

It’s truffle time... This year’s collection is 36!! different flavours and personalities. Whether it’s a quiet sumptuous moment of bliss or a box to share with your peeps each little truffle is here to light up your tastebuds and to light up your brain.

Different shapes, techniques, and cool ingredients is what makes every box so special and very pretty to see all together. I love seeing the collections you peeps put together... worlds within worlds.

All 3 shops will be getting a fresh supply this week and we will try our best to keep them stocked until Xmas eve. Our truffles are made every day by hand with fresh cream without preservatives so they should be eaten within a week or so, Shouldn’t be a problem right? My precious :)

The boozys are so fun this year..
Yuzu jam,Toki whisky
Nocino-made with Black Walnuts we picked in our yard
Kinsip Whispering Pines Vodka & Raspberry
Cherry Aperitivo- made with Rhubarb and Juniper
Negroni- my favourite drink

Peeps you are amazing thank-you for supporting small this year. It’s never lost on us how special it is to be in this cacao universe with you.

Milky Milk Chocolate

Can we talk about Milk chocolate? Dark chocolate has been having its moment but let's not forget about Milk chocolate. When you intertwine cacao beans, sugar and milk and just the right proportion the results are mind-blowing. A whole other spectrum of flavour notes open... please step through the creamy portal to the land of nuts, florals, and caramel- maillard party time.

All our milks are dark-milks meaning they sit at 35% cacao content, It's the magic spot where the cacao still shines through a creamy lens. Most milk chocolate sits at 10.

2 bars to sing about

New Release!
Mr Salazar Milk Chocolate.
All the beautiful flavours of cacao done up as a milk chocolate. Not all cacao taste good as a milk, but Freddy's beans just work. We first tested this by spinning it up as a creamy gelato and the results were spectacular. Grab the milk and dark chocolate it's a delicious and fun way to enjoy Mr Salazar.

and my personal favourite...
Dream Machine Milk Chocolate
It's a IYKYK chocolate, quietly addictive. It's our house milk we use to make our confections because it tastes good with so many different ingredients.We spent a couple years tweaking this recipe with the mission to make the perfect Milk Chocolate, a milk we would want to eat everyday. It's a perfect milky milk.. notes of fresh milk, caramel, butter, brown sugar. The milk is from Quebec, sugar is organic cane, the cacao 's beautiful beans from Ecuador.

Milk peeps... we got you.

5 holiday boozies this year
Here’s to gathering with your peeps with a glass…

Now available at the shops and as a boozy box that includes 2 each of the boozies.

Yuzu Toki Whisky
A vibrant Yuzu jam is suspended above a luscious chocolate ganache spiked with Suntory Toki Whisky. Toki is a fresh Japanese whisky with notes of citrus, and peppery spices infused into a Semuliki dark chocolate ganache.

Raspberry & Kinsip Woodland Whisper Vodka
Friends make beautiful things together and it’s no secret we love . Their Pine vodka is triple distilled in a copper still with Ontario Wheat and Pine. The vodka is infused into a fresh creamy raspberry ganache. The pine and raspberries work so nice together, think winter forest delight.

Negroni
A proper Negroni made into an elegant truffle, sweet vermouth, gin, Campari and an orange twist on top. Negroni peeps this one's for you.

Nocino
Made with the black walnuts we picked at our treehouse. The Nocino has been aging for 2 years developing layers of smooth dark, nutty and spiced notes.

Cherry Aperitivo
The Aperitivo is the beloved pre-dinner cocktail of Venetians. A cocktail that bonds people in the beautiful little moments of the day. Cherry jelly floats above a ganache spiked with “Select Aperitivo” made with Rhubarb, Vanilla and ginger.

Let’s party.

Dreamy Bar
A chocolate canoe sailed in from the land of cocktails, golden sunsets, and swaying palm trees.

The flavours of the tropics made into a giant, buttery, crunchy travel bar. Composed of a dark chocolate canoe filled with pillowy truffle layers of passionfruit and coconut rum caramel, topped with a golden macadamia nut and coconut extravaganza.

Easy, breezy, and big—a perfect size for sharing sliced up at the end of a beautiful meal or as a hostess gift. Packaged in a beautiful gift box.

Will easily be fresh until Xmas... unless you eat it before 🤭. Limited edition available now at the shops and the web shop

Spark of Joy bar

An enchanting new bar...
Luscious salted caramel chocolate adorned with a sweet moment in the forest— roasted baby pistachios, jeweled barberries and Newfoundland salt crystals fluttering around a honey-butter tree.

A bar to celebrate your peeps, a spark of joy to send out into the universe.

Now available at the shops and on the webshop. The Spark of Joy bar will keep until Xmas snd beyond so feel free to stash and hide.

Limited edition

omg this magnificent sunshine today and those big fluffy blossoms everywhere. A perfect day to launch our Mother's Day truffle.

Mascarpone & twilight rhubarb floret
A soft Italian triple cream cheese truffle whipped and swirled around a tangy twilight Rhubarb jam.

Now available in the shops and as part of the "Love you Mama" truffle box. An edible "I love you" message to the person who surrounds you with a force field in the form of a big fat extra-long, Mom hug. pssst...the box also contains the coveted seasonal Strawberry Rhubarb truffle.

All week the shops will be filled with chocolate to celebrate Mama-ing in all its beautiful shapes and forms... We'll also be scooping freshly spun gelato so pop by nab a seat outside and let those glorious rays of sunshine hit your beautiful faces.

Mbingu, Tanzania dark Chocolate pod on a hazelnut nest. The final egg of the trio of eggs being hatched into the world.

We've been dreaming and wanting to release this chocolate for 3 years .. but then the pandemic, life. happened.. super happy to finally share this beautiful cacao with everyone as a Pod later in the year as a chocolate bar. It's going to be fun to paint the packaging for this origin. Hello elephants.

Mbingu is a 70% dark chocolate made with cacao grown in the Kilombero Valley, in the heart of Tanzania. Trees grown in the valley are certified organic, farmers in Kilombero have been practicing organic farming for generations. "Mbingu", Swahili for Heaven is the small town where the beans are fermented and dried. The location borders on the Udzungwa Mountain National Park famous for its bird, primate, and Savannah elephant species.

The pod is life size like a cacao pod in the wild, Piedmont hazelnut & chocolate are smooshed together then hand cranked through an old school Venetian pasta press and sculpted into a nest for the pod to sit on.

A very special limited edition, so much love (and so many steps) to make. Packed in a beautiful tulip shaped, reusable 1L Weck jar. (Yay to zero waste packaging)

We made our first small batch available now in the web shop, starting tomorrow you’ll be able pick them up in person in the shops.

https://www.somachocolate.com/collections/easter

Meet Niblet the adorable baby beaver. A charmer, cute as cute can be, bringer of smiles for a moment of sweetness.

Niblet is composed of dark, caramel and white chocolate made using cacao from our favourite farms and growing regions. Niblet's fur is made by smooshing roasted Piemonte hazelnuts and chocolate until smooth then molding by hand through an old school pasta press.

Fun fact: Beavers are vegetarians, they love to chew wood for their abodes and eat leaves and roots. Inside Niblet's belly... a bouquet of fruit chocolate leaves.

We've been working on Niblet for months, sculpting. casting 100s of molds, figuring out beaver fur is an interesting conundrum. Can't wait to see little fuzzbot out in the wild. Video is of a beaver friend we made up in Sudbury.

Niblets are very limited edition. Now available for pre-order. The first litter of niblets will be in the shops and ready to ship 2nd week of March.

https://www.somachocolate.com/collections/easter/products/niblet-the-baby-beaver

Truffles!!
The most sought after for the day of loooove.

The biggest collection we have ever made 37(!) different truffles. Little superheroes of all shapes, sizes and flavours, the beauty is in how different they are. Just like people... and love and us, all of us, together.

Sold per piece... gift a teeny tiny collection or a big luxe box of all 37 and be showered with adoration.

The lovely dovey limited editions are all boozy…
Kinsip County Cassis
Negroni
Treehouse Nocino ( Black Walnut)
Cherry Aperitivo
..and our new special release the Love Love truffle, a collaboration with our besties Stratus Vineyards In Niagara-by-the-Lake. We love the Stratus peeps so very much from their beautiful wine, nerdy minds and big hearts just the best humans.

The love love is a luscious dark chocolate truffle made with Stratus's beautiful 2016 Late Harvest Cabernet infused into a rich chocolate ganache made with Madagascar cacao. Look for the truffle shaped like a drop of wine. Niagara peeps Stratus has a stash at their winery.

Going to try our very best to keep the truffle cases at the shops well stocked for you from now to Vday but these darlings fly fast so come early to scoop up a box for your love.

https://www.somachocolate.com/collections/truffles

Valentine’s Day flavour workshop!!

Thought it would be fun to launch our first flavour workshops to celebrate the Day of Love.

2 workshops...

Feb 11, Chocolate
How do you make chocolate? Learn how flavour is developed at each fascinating step of the process.

First have a taste of this year's Black Forest cake truffle heart to prime your taste buds. We will be opening up our delicious and funky collection of ingredients to share with the group so you can assemble your own pairing and make a set of personalized chocolate bars.

Feb 13 & 14 Chocolate and Cocktails
With our friends Kinsip House of Fine spirits from Prince Edward County we'll take your tastebuds on an exploration.

First you'll make your own chocolate bars from our wild and wonderful collection of ingredients. Then you'll match your freshly made bars with cocktails made with Kinsip's gorgeous spirits. Fun right?

It's going to be super fun...we can't wait to see your creations.

Very limited spots available. Reserve Online.
https://www.somachocolate.com/collections/tastings

Wild Heart
a giant shaggy Black Forest cake truffle

A little different, this year’s heart is less structured, more wild and messy, a little like how love is.

The heart is big ( hand sized) to share with someone you adore.

All the magnificent flavours of a Black Forest Cake in an edible poem…
Dark Chocolate heart filled with layers of
♥ luscious dark Chocolate Truffle
♥ wild Amarena Cherries bathed in sour Cherry syrup & Brandy
♥ Chocolate Sablé
♥ Cherry Cream
♥ covered in an ethereal dark Chocolate flakes

A celebration of sweet little moments… watching a dreamy sunset together, a glowing smile, a story... a summertime nap under a fluffy sky... Let’s hear it for love in all it’s beautiful forms.

This year's heart is wrapped in a cute beeswax wrap you can reuse over and over again. (Yay to no plastic reusable packaging) To wash use cold water and an alcohol free dish detergent.

Now available for pre-order, hearts start shipping last week of January.

Hope to have the first batches in the shops in a week-ish. Hearts are shelf stable for Valentines day + a week

Happy almost Lunar New Year
To celebrate...adorable little Lucky Rabbits.

Soft feathery shortbread rabbits holding precious ingredients to radiate good luck into the world.

2023 is the year of the Rabbit. The chi-life force for this year is water.. Water rabbits bring flow and a peaceful soft energy for this year. :)

Sold in pairs. One holding a precious fruit the other a nut

Precious good luck ingredients
Seville Orange peel
Amarena Cherry
candied Australian Ginger
Piedmonte Hazelnut
Almonds from Puglia
Toasted Pecans

We made a small batch for the shops and the web shop available starting today. Perfect as a red envelope bonus.

https://www.somachocolate.com/collections/featured-products/products/lucky-rabbit-cookies

New truffle alert...
5 new Limited edition boozy truffles. An ode to gathering with your peeps with a glass…

County Cassis
Friends make beautiful things together. Kinsip's Cassis liqueur is made with local black currants and aged Brandy. We float the Cassis above a silky smooth ganache.

Cherry Aperitivo
The Aperitivo is the beloved pre-dinner cocktail of Venetians. A cocktail that bonds people in the beautiful little moments of the day. Cherry jelly floats above a ganache spiked with “Select Aperitivo” made with Rhubarb, Vanilla and ginger.

Nocino
Made with the black walnuts we picked at our treehouse. The Nocino has been aging for 2 years developing layers of smooth dark, nutty and spiced notes.

Old Smoky Mead
A fortified mead made by Rosewood in Niagara with burnt honey aged in bourbon barrels for 3 years. Whipped into a buttery chocolate truffle with their beautiful wildflower honey. Looks like a drop of honey.

Negroni
A proper Negroni made into an elegant truffle, gin, sweet vermouth, a splash of Compari and an orange twist on top.

Now available at the shops and the web shop in custom sets.

X Soma
Black Forest Pavlova!!

A collaboration with our star lit pals Steph and Bruce the creative minds behind Roselle. Collabs with friends are the best... it just goes deeper and we both go all in for you and each other.

Black Forest Cake is one of my Mom's favourite cakes, we ate it as kids a lot, and…she just joined Instagram last week so say Hi to my Mom.

Roselle's cloud supreme chocolate pavlova with sour Cherry compote and custard! Doused in chocolate shavings and truffle cubes we made with cacao beans. Hi Freddy.

It eats like you would guess...like a dream and it joins friends in one dessert seamlessly. Big love there. Available at Roselle's shop, in person, first come first serve, to be eaten right away.

The sprinkles we have always wanted to sell ( just figuring out how to package as they are very fragile, but coming soon) sprinkle them on dessert, gelato, hot chocolate or into your mouth. The texture is really unique and flaky. Single origin sprinkles?! What do you think peeps?

The truffles are now available as a sneak peak at the shops this weekend alongside 4 new single origin truffles we have been working on for a year. Will tell you about them soon…

Happy Saturday everyone!!

Preorder of the wildly popular Chocolate Calendar.
very limited edition- sells out fast ( pssst peeps who missed out last year)

24 little burrows filled with the loveliest chocolate we make. every morsel has a little story to tell. Peeps it's so good this year.

In a lush pocket of the jungle a magical gathering unfolds… It’s a jungle party!! Friends travel from near and far with their favourite foods to share... there's feasting, funky beats, laughter and a supersonic force that forms when good friends gather to bask in each other’s glow.

See a creature that reminds you of yourself or someone you adore? The animals were drawn as a love song to the wild and wonderful people in our orbits—a celebration of how we are all so beautifully different but the same.

Bonus:
This year's calendar comes with a limited edition pressing of my jungle party artwork. It's a sweet way to brighten up your home or it makes a cute gift.

We are trying to have the calendars ready to ship and for pick-up 2nd week of November.

https://www.somachocolate.com/products/jungle-party-advent-calendar

Finally... in person tastings are back. I mean where else can you explore, and eat chocolate in the middle of a working chocolate factory. They're deeply satisfying and a lot of fun!!

Please spread the word, they're great gifts, let your boss know how much fun it would be for your team to eat chocolate together. :)

Who
Chocolate addicts, big kids, small kids, kids at heart.

Explore
Travel to the chocolate lands with us and learn how a single cacao bean is grown and made into a single bar of chocolate and how beautiful flavours are unlocked at each step of the chocolate making process.

Tasting
Come taste chocolate in all its beautiful forms, cacao beans, award winners, rare chocolate, milk-dark-fruit chocolate... with a chocolate navigator our group will time travel all over the world through the chocolate portal. Bonus: We are offering a rare cacao pod fruit gelato as an add on to the tasting.

Where
Our beautiful sunlit chocolate factory in Parkdale.

When:
Fridays 6pm or Sat 1pm
or if you want to book a private tasting on another date with 5+ peeps email us at [email protected] and we'll hook you up.
https://www.somachocolate.com/collections/tastings/products/public-tasting-at-the-chocolate-factory

After a crazy ride building our dream chocolate factory from a bunker with no roof or walls we finally opened our doors in 2020, 3 months later our little chocolate world and the pandemic collided. But now we're back... a bit smaller, a little tired but still reveling in the wonder of this world of cacao. We are deeply grateful for your support and love of chocolate. It's lovely being on this chocolate journey with all of you. Pop by the factory we're open Wed-Sun.

Raspberry Chocolate Star Destroyer truffles. May the 4th be almost with you.

Remember the chocolate dumplings for CNY? We promised to make the star destroyer dumplings for May the 4th. Yes we are nerds. Nerds making delicious things for other nerds.

So how do you make Chocolate Star destroyers? Lol not easily. We make paper thin chocolate wrappers, pipe on fluffy raspberry ganache and fold(!) chocolate into a star destroyer before the chocolate sets hard.

The whole process is pushing the science a bit but it's totally worth it. The result is a star destroyer able to travel faster than light... crispy chocolate skin snapping through to a whipped tangy Raspberry filling.

Very limited edition.

There will be a small fleet of star destroyers at the King and Distillery shops starting tomorrow and on May 4th. There’s also some flying around the web shop but be quick before they blast off to a galaxy far far away.
nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrr pew pew… pew pew

https://www.somachocolate.com/collections/mothers-day/products/star-destroyer-truffles

new Easter Egg alert
Meet Quill the baby hedgehog. This cute hoglet comes out at dusk to play under the stars bringing a smile to you or someone you love...a moment of sweetness.

Quill is composed of chocolate made using cacao from our favourite farms and growing regions. Their spiky fur is a delightfully delicious mix of rare roasted Porcelana cacao nibs from Venezuela, organic coconuts and crunchy bits and bites.

Hedgehogs love to eat bugs!! Inside Quill’s belly a pair of raspberry hazelnut chocolate ladybug truffles with pop rocks for a crunchy bug-like effect. Quill sits on a Gianduja nest made by smooshing roasted Piemonte hazelnuts and chocolate until smooth and molding it by hand through an old school pasta press. During the day Quill sleeps in a beautiful reusable 1L Weck jar. (Yay to zero waste bpa-free packaging)

Now available for adoption in the shops and on the pants optional web store.

https://www.somachocolate.com/products/quill-the-chocolate-hedgehog